well right now I am doing my first PC build, so far I have only ordered the case, but I am just about ready to pick a motherboard, its probably going to be an ASUS P5W board. This board is set up for crossfire (it has two PCI-e ports and the Intel 975X chipset). The other thing is, I already own a middle/low end ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 512mb PCI-E (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...anufacture=ATI) that I have in another computer. I have not been able to find solid info on what I would need to crossfire this card, weather its going to require a master card and what master card I should use. Is it worth it to try to get a secon ATI card that will crossfire with this one or should I just go out and get an Nvidia?

Bandit,
I wouldnt get the Asus P5W DH Deluxe for Crossfire, I would use it for a single card system though.
They dont mention it in the glossy product guide but the 16 PCIe pipelines change to 1x12 and 1 x 4 pipes when you place a second card in that board even though it states "cross-fire ready" It will run them but not as effectivly as it could.

I have Sapphire X1900XTX 512 and X1900 Crossfire in mine and it performs better with single card benching then crossfired.

Edit...ASUS Blitz Formula board will do a 2 x 8 which is great for Crossfire.

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